The Eucharistic Prayer for the Feast of St. Peter and St. Paul, Apostles

 P: It is truly right and a good and joyful thing 

that we should at all times and in all places, 

offer our thanks and praise to you, Holy

God through Christ our Lord. 

You fill our hearts with joy as we honor

your great apostles: 

Peter, our leader in the faith,

and Paul, the fearless preacher. 

Peter raised up the Church from the

faithful flock of Israel. 

Paul brought your call to the nations, and

became the teacher of the world. 

You made them shepherds of the flock to continue the work of your Son. 

Each in his chosen way gathered into unity the one family of Christ. 

Both shared a martyr’s death and are praised throughout the world. 

And so with the Church on earth, 

with Peter, Paul, and all the hosts of heaven, 

we praise your name and join their unending hymn:

The Sanctus is said or sung.

P: You are indeed holy, O God,

and blessed is your Son Jesus Christ. 

He is the eternal Shepherd who never leaves the flock untended. 

He chose Simon as his disciple,

the rock on which he would build Your church. 

On the Damascus Road he called Saul

to turn from a life of persecution and your Spirit rested upon him. 

By the baptism of his suffering, death, and

resurrection, 

you gave birth to your church, 

delivered us from slavery to sin and death, 

and made with us a new covenant by water

and the Spirit.

On the night before he suffered death, 

our Lord Jesus gathered his friends around

the table and as he took bread, he offered thanks to you; 

breaking it, and giving it to all of them, saying: 

“Take and eat; this is my body, given for

you. Do this for the remembrance of me.” 

After all of them had eaten, 

he again took the cup and offered thanks to you, 

and gave it for all to drink, saying: 

“This cup is the new covenant in my blood,

shed for you and for all people for the forgiveness

of sin. Do this for the remembrance of me.”

And so, in remembrance of these your mighty acts in Jesus Christ, 

we offer ourselves in praise and thanksgiving 

as a holy and living sacrifice, 

in union with Christ’s offering for us, 

as we proclaim the mystery of faith: 

C: Christ has died. Christ has risen.

Christ will come again.

 

P: Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here 

and on these gifts of bread and wine. 

As they are the body and blood of Christ for us, 

so may we be for the world the body of

Christ, redeemed by his blood. 

Illumine our lives, O God, with the radiance of Christ’s love, 

and inspire us to shine in faith and witness as his holy disciples. 

By your Spirit bind us to Christ,

one to another, 

together in ministry to all the world, 

until Christ comes in final victory and we

feast at the heavenly banquet. 

Through your son Jesus Christ, 

with the Holy Spirit in your holy church,

all honor and glory is yours, 

Almighty God, now and forever. 

C: Amen

P: And now, as God’s confident children,

we boldly pray:

C: Our Father in heaven...